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Of course, having said the same for many years, I think that Newt Gingrich is completely right here: Education is increasingly a policy issue which favors Republicans. … The fight over school performance has expanded as the Big Government Socialists move on multiple fronts to undermine traditional learning. Honor programs are being eliminated, and grading…
Frida Ghitis of CNN reminds me of that classic arcade game, Dig Dug, the way she works to inflate Joe Biden’s performance during a softball town hall on her network, but her closing line raises an interesting question: In the end, Biden’s political standing will depend not on the impact of the town hall, but on…
Joel Holmes explains: Yes, the battle against the insane electric car policy and the whole Green New Deal can be won, using just three little words. Well, to be exact six words, and here they are: Solar Panels Don’t Work At Night As an alternative energy engineer, I had the misfortune to work with solar…
We need to order some of this attitude from across the Pond: The British government has instructed schools not to “teach contested theories and opinions as fact,” including contested views about so-called “white privilege.” The government on Thursday published its response to a report from the UK Parliament’s Education Select Committee, which said that the…
Here’s the key paragraph in this Epoch Times article about a California teacher who’s been put on leave after wearing a paper headdress and dancing in a (let’s say) indigenous fashion to drive home a math lesson: “It is damaging and disheartening to see Native American and indigenous culture represented in such a trite and…
This shift in the calculation of and requirements for flood insurance will be something to keep an eye on: For the first time, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is about to incorporate climate risk into the cost of flood insurance. The impact will be a dramatic increase in the cost of flood insurance. In…
The RI Department of Labor and Training has changed the way it reports monthly labor information. But one notable observation is that the number of payroll jobs based in Rhode Island actually fell from August to September. Total jobs went up, however, owing to big increases in state and local government jobs. The industries that…
Expressing a view on a political or social issue can be harmful to your career, if it isn’t of the progressive-approved variety: The CEO of an American video game developer stepped down after he issued a statement supportive of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in favor of a law in Texas that bans abortions after…
While he goes a bit far in framing ’80s dance parties as a path to God, Mark Judge makes a great point, here: Going out was a long ride uninterrupted by texts, which didn’t exist, or phone calls, because phone booths were hard to find. The experience formed a kind of meditation. The professional world…
The title of this Barbara Morse piece on WJAR carries an important point of political philosophy: Health leaders say Rhode Island health care COVID-19 vaccine mandate is working By “working,” they mean that the percentage of healthcare workers who have been vaccinated has gone up to 95%, which is probably an increase of around 10…
